Cats
Many first-time cat owners, in When adopting a cat, I don’t know how to do it. Generally speaking, both kittens and adult cats have their own advantages and disadvantages, which mainly depend on the owner’s situation. Kittens need more time to manage, and it is more difficult for adult cats to change their previous habits, so you must consider and understand before making a decision.
1. Raising Adult Cats
Adult cats have strong ability to live independently, are well trained, have strong physical performance and resistance, and are not prone to illness. No need to do too much processing. Moreover, adult cats are safer in character and will protect themselves. If there are children in the family, adult cats can actively avoid the harm of children and can get along with children peacefully over time. Therefore, families with children are recommended to raise adult cats. However, it is difficult for adult cats to adapt to a new environment and change their lifestyle for the new environment. They may cause unnecessary troubles to new owners, such as being picky eaters, not accepting new owners, escaping, etc. In short, adult cats do not require owners to worry too much and are more suitable for new cat owners, busy families, families with children or elderly families.
2. Raising kittens
Many people like the cute appearance of kittens. Kittens are also relatively easy to adapt to new families and owners, and they have good character. It is lively and fun, and it is easy to build a relationship with the owner. However, the owner needs to spend more time managing and training the kitten and correcting the kitten's bad flaws, such as scratching and biting, urinating and urinating everywhere, etc. At the same time, kittens have a weak digestive system, so they need to eat regularly and regularly, with small amounts and frequent meals. They should be fed at least 4 meals a day. Families with busy work schedules will definitely not be able to take into account feeding. In addition, the smaller the cat, the better. If the kitten is weaned prematurely, it will not be able to obtain nutrients from breast milk, its resistance and immunity will be relatively poor, and its ability to live independently will be poor. If the management is not careful, it will be easy to get sick. To the point of sacrifice, caregiving is much more troublesome than for adult cats. Therefore, people who are busy at work and have no experience in raising cats are not suitable for raising kittens.
3. How to adapt the kitten to the environment
Raising a cat means that you need to provide at least 10 to 15 years of care, including the cost of raising a cat. These are all things to consider, along with veterinary fees, pet licenses, food, toys, waste and other miscellaneous expenses. These will help you make reasonable preparations and then implement them into specific actions, so that you can patiently help the cat adapt to its new home.
If you have other pets, you might as well help the cat get familiar with them. You can put the kitten in a room and let other animals smell the kitten's scent, and then they can become familiar with each other. This stimulates the animal's curiosity, allowing them to become familiar with each other's scent, and often makes it easier to bring in a new kitten or other resident's dog. However, sometimes the introduction of new kittens may cause a lot of trouble to the residents, which needs to be paid attention to.
In fact, whether the cat can better utilize the new environment depends on the cat’s characteristics. As long as there is time and patience, then they can communicate with each other and live harmoniously. If you can’t get along well at all, don’t be impatient. After all, it will take some time. Maybe the cats are unfamiliar with the new environment and they don’t dare to interact with new owners, so you must have enough patience to guide them. Holding the cat.
The cute appearance of kittens keeps us hooked, and the independence of adult cats will save their owners a lot of trouble in raising them. In fact, when choosing a cat, the most important thing is to get along with the owner. , so that even adult cats will be trained by their owners.
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